Thursday, 30 April 2015

skateboarding in '65

These great images were taken in New York by Bill Eppridge for a Life magazine article in 1965. Around this time skateboarding was starting to take off in the UK too, initially with American boards like Hobie. Back then skateboarding was a brand new sport, something for surfers to do when the surf was flat , or otherwise a craze for the kids. Like surfing it has lasted through the decades and is for all ages , not just the kids.

'The skateboard is the most exhilarating and dangerous joyriding device this side of the hot rod . The effect of having stepped on a banana peel while dashing down the back stairs' Life magazine 1965